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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Branding our WebView


Now we are going to make our app, well, more app like. We will add a logo to the bottom of the screen. This will make our app look and feel more like something you would download from Google Play (which it will be) and less like something you simply browse to on the web.

Getting ready

Have ready a small logo perhaps no more than 300 pixels wide and 100 pixels high. Name it logo.png.

How to do it...

This is nice and easy, follow along carefully and we will soon be done.

  1. In the Eclipse Package Explorer find and double click on the folder drawable-mdpi. Make the Eclipse window smaller and drag your logo file into drawable-mdpi. Your graphics are now ready to use.

    Tip

    Do you see the file ic_launcher.png? This is the file you need to change if you want to update your launcher icons, perhaps because they weren't ready when we created them. In fact, notice the first four sub folders in the Res folder which drawable-mdpi is in. They are drawable-hdpi, drawable-ldpi, drawable-mdpi,...